Looks like NRA is spending some money on advertising this year. Good:
Category: Guns
We Laugh at 1 in 35
SayUncle, Robb and Dave Hardy report that Florida’s licensing rate is up to 1 in 35 residents. Pikers! All of them. Pennsylvania issues about 550,000 – 600,000 licenses to carry in total, which comes out to about 1 in 20 Pennsylvania residents with an LTC. And you can’t even open carry in Florida! Of course, even in states where open carry is legal, you still have some places that aren’t getting the message.
Some Questionable Claims by GOA
Bitter looks at some claims GOA is making in regards to its membership and influence, and the numbers just don’t add up.
AHSA Round Up
SayUncle has a great round up of American Hunters and Shooting Association that’s in response to this article appearing in the New West. Dave Hardy hit AHSA hard last week on the same article.
Bob Moates Sport Shop Settling
According to the Wall Street Journal:
In an out-of-court settlement, the former holdout, Bob Moates Sport Shop, Midlothian, Va., agreed to tougher rules for selling guns, according to a copy of the agreement reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The new rules are based directly on stricter standards Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest gun seller, adopted earlier this year in a voluntarily agreement with a gun-control group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
You made a deal with the devil Bob Moates, and I’m afraid it will likely cost you your business. Just ask Smith & Wesson. You can’t give into bullies. You have to fight them. By giving in, you’ve encouraged Bloomberg to find more shops to beat up. Fortunatly, Bloombergs little sting is now a crime in Virginia, but that’s not going to get other states off the hook.
Spread the word. Don’t shop at Bob Moates Sport Shop.
When Unions Lie
Unions should be ashamed of themselves for lying to their members like this:
Trumka, an avid hunter and fisher, says corporate interests will again seek to exploit the issue of gun ownership this year, hoping to distract gun-owning voters from real issues like jobs, health care and retirement security. This election is too important to let distortions and falsehood affect it, Trumka says.
It’s not corporate issues seeking to exploit this. Am I a corporate interest? Are NRA’s 4 million members corporate interests? No. You can’t hide from Obama’s record. Union members need to be aware of their leadership attempting to pull the wool over their eyes this election in hopes they’ll be good little union members, and pull the lever for the O-man. Let’s hope the union folks are smarter than their leadership gives them credit for come November.
The WaPo Has Some Gall
The Washington Post are taking Mark Warner to task for getting behind the bill to force DC to comply with Heller:
It was jarring, however, to see Mr. Warner take a position at odds with his well-groomed image of a moderate. As he knows, D.C. officials already are working to bring the city in compliance with the ruling of the high court, and Mr. Warner would never countenance for Virginia a law as extreme as that proposed for the District.
What? Do Journalists even bother to do research anymore? Virginia’s gun laws are in numerous ways more liberal than those proposed for the District of Colombia by Congress. In fact, that is the case in most states. Here’s what you can do in Virginia you can’t do in DC, even if the proposed Heller enforcement bill becomes law:
- Get a license to carry a loaded firearm concealed.
- Carry concealed on a reciprocal license if you’re from another state.
- Carry any firearm loaded, openly, without a license.
- Buy a machine gun, suppressor, or short barreled rifle or shotgun.
- Own pistol ammunition that you don’t own a pistol for.
Mark Warner doesn’t have to countenance a law as “extreme” as the District’s for Virginia. Virginia law is already better than the proposed law for D.C.! And I won’t even get into the fact that Arlington and Fairfax Counties have crime rates that are a fraction of those found on the other side of the Potomac.
The Palm Pistol
The Palm Pistol has been making its way around the gun blogs. My first thought was that I can’t believe it’s not classified as an AOW, but I guess it’s designed to be fired by a single hand, so it’s hard to argue it should be. My second thought was that I can’t believe there are still firearms innovations coming out of New Jersey.
UPDATE: Here’s the ATF approval letter for the Palm Pistol.
It’s a 1960’s Army Video
I always love old government videos. Firearms & Freedom has an interesting video from the Army, dated 1966, describing the functoin of the XM16E1 weapon system, which would later be adopted as the M16.
Shooting the Gun Blog Rifle Match
Well, I spent most of the day at the range today working through the Summer Rifle Match. Just to give you some background on my high-power experience, next Sunday I will shoot my club’s Garand match. This will be the first formal high-power match I will ever have shot. So far the only shooting sports I even have a classification for are NRA and IHMSA Air Pistol Silhouette, IHMSA Smallbore and IHMSA Field Pistol. My high-power shooting has been entirely the occasional fun afternoon at the range.
The rifle I used was an AR-15, an Armalite M15A4, with open sights. It’s a production gun with no modifications other than me adding the bird cage flash suppressor and bayonet lug after the AWB expired. Doesn’t add much to the rifle shooting wise, but it felt good leaving that piece of garbage law behind.
Ammunition was hand loaded. 55 grain Hornady FMJBT w/ cannelure powered by 21 grains of IMR-4198 with a CCI 400 small rifle primers, all held together with unfired Lake City NATO spec brass.
Result:
- Standing Slow – 91 0X
- Sitting Rapid – 91 0X
- Prone Rapid – 94 1X
- Prone Slow – 95 0X
Total 371 out 400, but it seems I can’t find the X ring very often. Some observations which I may or may not be crazy about. For one, I could swear that hand loaded ammunition ejects brass is a more consistent pattern than factory ammunition. My brass was usually in a nice arrangement on the ground. I often have to hunt down factory ammo because it gets ejected wildly. Two, I could swear my point of impact was lowering with the use of the sling, but I find it hard to believe the sling could bend the barrel down enough to matter.